Remote SSH Connection dialog is missing "Port", "User Name" fields, is non-intuitive

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

When a host KVM is running and openssh server is running, try to access it from another machine:
1) Launch virt-manager on "Client" machine
2) choose File > Open Connection... > Connection: Remote Tunnel over SSH

Credentials have to be entered as user@IPaddress or <email address hidden>.

There should be fields for User Name and Port, such as there are in Places > Connect to Server... > Service Type: SSH

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Bryan McLellan (btm)]

This bug still exists in the UI. virt-manager does not have a specific field for username, port, or the likes. These must be placed in the hostname field.

See also LP:294965

[Adrian Bridgett (adrian-bridgett)]

it would be far better IMO if it just used .ssh/config - after all it calls the ssh command line tool.

By all means add options to the GUI to override them if you must.

However ATM it is also hard coding port 22 and root according to strace. I tracked some down under /usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager but I can't find the final ones (it used to be that simple, I fear it's now in some libvirt libraries I need to go hunting)